Learning Technologies Roadshow

Here’s a great opportunity to see some practitioners of online teaching doing great things at UC. The Learning Technologies Roadshow runs all week next week and has some really interesting insights into how to leverage tools like Learn to real advantage in your classroom. I especially recommend Nicola Petty’s session Using short learner-paced videos to teach difficult concepts . I worked with Nicola last year at UC and the stuff she is doing with Youtube videos is pretty amazing. Nicola’s field is economics and is exactly the area of teaching complex ideas in 10 minute bites that we could use to a lot of advantage in our courses in FOC.

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Some of us went to see parts of this. The use of video podcasts delivered by CD and then used how and where the students want to use them was an interesting example of mobile learning on a budget, with tools that most computers ship with